Nymphaeum

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Noun
  1. 1
    A shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain.

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"A nymphaeum is a monument consecrated to the nymphs."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nymphaeum, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖον (numphaîon), a substantivisation of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”).

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